The Energy Difference Between the Reactant Glucose and Oxygen Molecules

question 65

Multiple Choice

The energy difference between the reactant glucose and oxygen molecules and the product water and carbon dioxide is 686 kilocalories, yet the 36 ATP molecules produced are only storing 263 kilocalories in their outermost phosphate bond. The rest of the energy

• A) was added to the ADP fragment of the ATP molecule.
• B) provided the energy for life.
• C) powered the electron transport chain.
• D) was lost as heat.
• E) went nowhere, but was destroyed.

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Definitions:

Probabilities

The measure of the likelihood that an event will occur, represented as a number between 0 and 1, where 1 indicates certainty.

Binomial Random Variable

A type of random variable that represents the number of successes in a sequence of n independent experiments.

Normal Approximation

A method used in statistics to approximate a binomial distribution with a normal distribution when the sample size is large and the probability of success is not too close to 0 or 1.

Cumulative Binomial Probabilities

The sum of probabilities of achieving a given number of successes in a fixed number of Bernoulli trials.